Publications

2025

Multimodality of AI for Education: Towards Artificial General Intelligence

G. Lee, L. Shi, E. Latif, Y. Gao, A. Bewersdorff, M. Nyaaba, ... & X. Zhai
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
May 2025
DOI
2025

Unveiling Scoring Processes: Dissecting the Differences between LLMs and Human Graders in Automatic Scoring

X. Wu, P. P. Saraf, G. G. Lee, E. Latif, N. Liu, & X. Zhai
Technology, Knowledge and Learning
March 2025
DOI
2025

Fine-Tuning ChatGPT for Automatic Scoring of Written Scientific Explanations in Chinese

J. Yang, E. Latif, & X. Zhai
Journal of Science Education and Technology
February 2025
DOI
2024

Communication-Efficient Multi-Robot Exploration Using Coverage-biased Distributed Q-Learning

E. Latif & R. Parasuraman
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
March 2024
DOI
2024

Fine-tuning ChatGPT for Automatic Scoring

E. Latif & X. Zhai
Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence
July 2024
DOI
2024

Applying Large Language Models and Chain-of-Thought for Automatic Scoring

G. G. Lee, E. Latif, X. Wu, N. Liu, & X. Zhai
Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence
September 2024
DOI
2024

Instantaneous Wireless Robotic Node Localization Using Collaborative Direction of Arrival

E. Latif & R. Parasuraman
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
January 2024
DOI
2025

SketchMind: A Multi-Agent Cognitive Framework for Assessing Student-Drawn Scientific Sketches

E. Latif, Z. Khan, & X. Zhai
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
December 2025
2025

Anonymous Self-Stabilising Localisation via Spatial Population Protocols

L. Gąsieniec, L. Kuszner, E. Latif, R. Parasuraman, P. Spirakis, & G. Stachowiak
International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2025)
November 2025
2025

Privacy-Preserved Automated Scoring using Federated Learning for Educational Research

E. Latif & X. Zhai
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025)
July 2025
DOI
2025

Efficient multi-task inference: Model merging with Gromov-Wasserstein feature alignment

L. Fang, E. Latif, H. Lu, Y. Zhou, P. Ma, & X. Zhai
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025)
July 2025
DOI
2024

Artificial Intelligence Bias on English Language Learners in Automatic Scoring

S. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Yu, X. Wu, B. Aykin, F. Watt, E. Latif, L. Liu, N. Liu, & X. Zhai
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2025)
July 2025
DOI
2025

Efficient Multi-Task Inferencing with a Shared Backbone and Lightweight Task-Specific Adapters for Automatic Scoring

E. Latif & X. Zhai
AAAI Workshop on Meta-Innovation and Responsibility in AI-Supported Education (2025)
March 2025
Paper
2024

Gemini Pro Defeated by GPT-4V: Evidence from Education

G. Lee, L. Shi, E. Latif, & X. Zhai
NeurIPS Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment
December 2024
Paper
2024

Anchor-Oriented Localized Voronoi Partitioning for GPS-denied Multi-Robot Coverage

A. Munir, E. Latif, Y. Gui, & R. Parasuraman
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
October 2024
DOI
2024

HGP-RL: Distributed Hierarchical Gaussian Processes for Wi-Fi-based Relative Localization in Multi-Robot Systems

E. Latif & R. Parasuraman
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
October 2024
DOI
2024

Object-Oriented Material Classification and 3D Clustering for Improved Semantic Perception and Mapping in Mobile Robots

S. Ravipati, E. Latif, S. Bhandarkar, & R. Parasuraman
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
October 2024
DOI
2024

PhysicsAssistant: An LLM-Powered Interactive Learning Robot for Physics Lab Investigations

E. Latif, R. Parasuraman, & X. Zhai
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
August 2024
DOI
2024

Knowledge Distillation of LLM for Automatic Scoring of Science Education Assessments

E. Latif, L. Fang, P. Ma, & X. Zhai
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2024)
July 2024
DOI
2024

Automatic Scoring of Students' Science Writing Using Hybrid Neural Network

E. Latif & X. Zhai
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2024)
March 2024
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Awards & Honors

CPS Rising Star 2025

Awarded a highly competitive fellowship to attend the NSF Cyber Physical Systems Rising Star Workshop and PI meeting.

Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics Award (ICRA-24)

Selected for the Pioneers of Natural Sciences Laboratory Robotics talk at ICRA 2024 and received an award of £500.

CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominee

PhD dissertation nominated by the University of Georgia for the 2024 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Graduate Research Excellence Award

Nominated by the School of Computing at the University of Georgia for research excellence during doctoral studies.

James L. Carmon Scholarship Award (Honorable Mention)

Received for excellence in designing and implementing efficient computing algorithms for robotics.